Part of the problem with having Giannis more active on defense means he isn’t in position as much to rebound. Our rebound rate was always going to go down more if we play a more aggressive D with Giannis and Bobby, our two best rebounders.

It shouldn’t be this bad though. A lot of it is we have two guards that are bad rebounders too, which means they both aren’t getting rebounds and aren’t helping box out.

Celtics avg 36.9 DRebs per game which is the best.

Bulls are at 30.4 which is the worst.

Bucks are 32.5 at 19th. If they averaged 1 less per game they’d be ranked 26th. If they averaged one more per game they’d be like 12th.

Now think about the amount of times a defense just lets a rebound fall or go out of bounds instead of risking dropping it and the whole league is pretty damn close